The International Journal of Material Forming is the official Journal of the European Scientific Association for material FORMing (ESAFORM) (www.esaform.org).

The Journal publishes and disseminates original research in the field of material forming. The research should constitute major achievements in the understanding, modeling or simulation of material forming processes. In this respect ‘forming’ implies a deliberate deformation of material.

The journal establishes a platform of communication between engineers and scientists, covering all forming processes, including sheet forming, bulk forming, powder forming, forming in near-melt conditions (injection moulding, thixoforming, film blowing etc.), micro-forming, hydro-forming, thermo-forming, incremental forming etc. Other manufacturing technologies like machining and cutting can be included if the focus of the work is on plastic deformations.

All materials (metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, glass, wood, fibre reinforced materials, materials in food processing, biomaterials, nano-materials, shape memory alloys etc.) and approaches (micro-macro modelling, thermo-mechanical modelling, numerical simulation including new and advanced numerical strategies, experimental analysis, inverse analysis, model identification, optimization, design and control of forming tools and machines, wear and friction, mechanical behavior and formability of materials etc.) are concerned.

Papers should describe new forming processes, experiments, models or modelling techniques, related to forming or the relation between process conditions and product properties. In general, simulation results should be validated by experiments unless the focus is purely on novel modelling techniques. New models or modelling techniques should have a broad applicability in forming simulations and should not be restricted to one particular shape.

Results of analytical or numerical models that are not translated into new knowledge or are not supported by experimental validation will not be accepted. Similarly, submissions that describe experimental results without thorough evaluation and conclusion and thus not leading to new knowledge, will be rejected. The relevance for forming technologies and the novelty of the work should be clearly described in the Abstract.

Editor-in-Chief
CHINESTA, Francisco, ENSAM ParisTech, France
Associate Editors
BANABIC, Dorel, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
BARLAT, Frederic, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
BOISSE, Philippe, INSA Lyon, France
CAZACU, Oana, University of Florida/REEF, USA
CUETO, Elias, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
VAN DEN BOOGAARD, Ton, University of Twente, The Netherlands
WORSWICK, Michael, University of Waterloo, Canada
International Advisory Committee
ABISSET-CHAVANNE, Emanuelle, École Nationale Superieure d'Arts et Métiers (ENSAM) I2M, Bordeaux, France
ADVANI, Suresh, University of Delaware, USA
AGELET de SARACIBAR, Carlos, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain
AKKERMAN, Remko, University of Twente, The Netherlands
ALVES DE SOUSA, Ricardo, University of Aveiro, Portugal
ATKINSON, Helen, University of Leicester, UK
BINETRUY, Christophe, Ecole Centrale Nantes, France
BOYARD, Nicolas, Laboratoire de Thermique et Energie de Nantes - UMR CNRS 6607, France
CAO, Jian, Northwestern University, USA
CARLONE, Pierpaolo, University of Salerno, Italy
CHENOT, Jean-Loup, ENSMP/CEMEF, France
COVAS, José António, Universidado do Minho, Portugal
DAWSON, Paul, Cornell University, USA
FRATINI, Livan, Università di Palermo, Italy
HABRAKEN, Anne-Marie, Université de Liège, Belgium
HIRT, Gerhard, RWTH Aachen, Germany
HORA, Pavel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
KUSIAK, Jan, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
KUWABARA, Toshihiko, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
LIEWALD, Mathias, Stuttgart Universität, Germany
MASSONI, Elisabeth, ENSMP/CEMEF, France
MENARY, Gary, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
MERKLEIN, Marion, University of Erlangen, Germany
MICARI, Fabrizio, Università di Palermo, Italy
REESE, Stefanie, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
REGNIER, Gilles, ENSAM Paris, France
ROSOCHOWSKI, Andrzej, University of Strathclyde, UK
SAANOUNI, Khemais, Université Technologique de Troyes, France
SIMIONESCU, Bogdan, Technical University Gh. Asachi Iasi, Romania
TEKKAYA, Erman, Universität Dortmund, Germany
VALENTE, Robertt, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
WAGONER, Robert, Ohio State University, USA
WELO, Torgeir, NTNU University, Norway
WRIGGERS, Peter, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany